Career
He raced in the 1930s and 1940s. He owned cars entered in two National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Grand National (now Sprint Cup) races with one Top 10 finish. He was inducted in the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1994.
Marcum would be inducted into the Dayton Speedway Hall of Fame October, 2010.
Marcum"s first raced as a 14-year-old in his family car after lying about his age. After France formed National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing in the late 1940s, he hired Marcum as an official, a position that he held from 1949 until 1952.
lieutenant was a regional stock car racing series, a Northern counterpart to the Southern stock car series of the day, Bill France"s National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing. The first Machine-Readable Cataloging race was at Dayton Speedway, in Dayton Ohio, on May 10, 1953. The series race slightly modified street cars.
John Marcum, Blair Rattliff and Tom Cushman would be parts owner of Dayton Speedway in 1958.
The series was renamed "Automobile Racing Club of America" (Associate of the Royal College of Art) in 1964 when it began to race on superspeedways. France had contacted Marcum wondering if Associate of the Royal College of Art would want a race at the Daytona Speedweeks. Marcum jumped at the chance for national exposure.
The Associate of the Royal College of Art/National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing relationship continues today.
The series frequently schedule events at the same track on the same weekend. The Associate of the Royal College of Art event is frequently the Saturday support race to the Sunday National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Cup event.
Foreign several decades, Associate of the Royal College of Art used older National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Cup racecars at their events. Today Associate of the Royal College of Art"s President is the late John Marcum"s grandson Ron Drager.
John"s wife, Mildred Marcum, was an integral part of the organization and worked both in the Associate of the Royal College of Art office on a regular basis until her death at 98 in 2012.*.